by Gordon Roesler | Apr 23, 2020 | News
We recall the recent success of Northrop Grumman’s MEV-1 in taking control of Intelsat 901, the first ever docking of two commercial satellites. Building on that, two GEO satellite operators are looking at how to keep their satellites operating longer: Xtar,...
by Gordon Roesler | Apr 9, 2020 | News
We now know for certain that the shadowed regions of the Moon’s poles contain water ice. There are many useful things that could be done with that ice: using it for astronaut drinking and washing; breaking it into hydrogen and oxygen, for breathing or for rocket...
by Gordon Roesler | Apr 7, 2020 | News
On Monday, April 6, the President of the United States issued an Executive Order entitled “Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources.” You can read the order here:...
by Gordon Roesler | Mar 10, 2020 | News
Today, Jason Kanigan interviewed me on his great show “Make Space Boring.” I love the title of that show: it lays out a vision of space operations being as routine as commercial airline flights and next-day Amazon Prime deliveries. Jason wanted to ask me...
by Gordon Roesler | Mar 4, 2020 | News
The online journal Robotics and Automation News has just published their article “Space robotics market to boldly go beyond $3 billion by 2025.” You can view it here: Space robotics market to boldly go beyond $3 billion by 2025 The article is a great...
by Gordon Roesler | Feb 10, 2020 | News
Robots can do a lot of useful things in space. But to make them even more useful, there needs to be a cheap, convenient way of getting things TO the robots: modules, spare parts, tools, propellant. The Defense Innovation Unit, a small agency inside DoD, has just asked...
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